Music Industry News

Oct. 1-7 Declared "Jazz Week in Pittsfield, Massachusetts"

Source: Ed Bride Associates
September 28, 2007

Mayor James M. Ruberto has declared the first week of October to be “Jazz Week in Pittsfield," acknowledging the contributions that the Pittsfield CityJazz Festival has made to downtown revival.

His proclamation follows. “Whereas cultural events are powerful change agents in communities. They contribute to economic development by attracting visitors and improving the quality of life in a community, making it more attractive to new businesses and residents. They provide access to the arts to young and old, enriching their ...

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Winard Harper: Drummer Enjoys Catching Spirit of Jazz Great Blakey

Source: All About Jazz
September 28, 2007

Drummer Winard Harper says the jazz legacy of Pittsburgh native Art Blakey goes far beyond being the leader of a legendary band. “We all have a lot of Art Blakey in us," the New York City jazz star says. “We all have that spirit in us." Harper will perform a Blakey tribute Saturday in East Liberty, but he insists that spirit will be the key to the show. “There will be stuff on my CDs that are a big part ...

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Yoshi's San Francisco Jazz Club & Japanese Restaurant Press Conference - Grand Opening Date Announced

Source: All About Jazz
September 27, 2007

San Francisco, CA -- World famous Yoshi's Jazz Club and Restaurant is expanding. It will open its second Bay Area location on November 28, 2007. It is located at 1330 Fillmore Street (at Eddy), in San Francisco, California. Roy Haynes and The Yoshi's Birds of a feather Super Band with Gary Burton, Ravi Coltrane, Nicholas Payton, Kenny Garrett, David Kikoski, and John Patitucci are set to christen the stage on opening night. Yoshi's San Francisco is a 28,000 square-foot, two-story, ...

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The Allegro Distribution Group Expands Label Roster ; Sign an Array of Jazz and World Labels

Source: Allegro Media
September 24, 2007

Founded over 25 years ago, The Allegro Distribution Group is well established as one of North America's leading entertainment distributors. Highly versed in the business of independent music and lifestyle distribution, Allegro and its growing business cover a wide spectrum of audio and video products, in virtually all genres and markets, including but not limited to: classical, jazz, rock, world, gift, lifestyle, children's and specialty retail. As a result, The Allegro Distribution Group stands out as the most diversified independent ...

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Nate Harasim Signs with Nugroove!

Source: Cheryl Hughey Promotions
September 20, 2007

It all started with a piano teacher named Ms. Bump and a desire as a youngster to make music. By the time Nate Harasim was sixteen, he was enrolled in the Flint Insititute for Music in Flint, Michigan and had formed the group, MoJazz. These straight ahead jazz players would open for the likes of Norman Brown, Pamela Williams, Roy Ayers, Tom Braxton and many others. Unfortunately, as with most of us, the friends of MoJazz went their separate ways ...

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Sonny Rollins Strips for Action

Source: All About Jazz
September 17, 2007

SONNY ROLLINS didn't just influence other saxophone players. He produced a half-century of close listeners. The long, idiosyncratic tenor saxophone solos that he started developing around 50 years ago -- bulging sacks of brilliant thematic improvisation, as well as slangy humor and quotations -- became a genuine American rhetoric, delirious and ecstatic; audiences reoriented their imagination, and their sense of patience, around them. But his greatest work from the 1950s and '60s trained many of them to want what he ...

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Karrin Allyson Signs with Tree Lawn Artists

Source: All About Jazz
September 17, 2007

Tree Lawn Artists is very pleased to announce the exclusive worldwide signing of Grammy Award-winning singer Karrin Allyson to our artist roster. Karrin is previewing material from her highly-anticipated upcoming 2008 Concord Records release IMAGINA--SONGS OF BRAZIL for a limited number of appearances this fall and early next year. A lively study of the irresistible rhythms and tunes of Brazil, the new album is a loving portrait of some of the country's best music through the eyes - and voice ...

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American Jazz Museum Marks 10 Years

Source: All About Jazz
September 12, 2007

The American Jazz Museum is emphasizing community ties as it holds a three-day gala this week marking a decade in the 18th and Vine Historic Jazz District. The headline event Friday night is sold out, but organizers have activities planned for Thursday, Friday and Saturday including a street festival, free concerts, lectures, a domino tournament and a free pancake breakfast. Admission to both the jazz museum and the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum will be free Saturday, and periodic guided tours ...

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